Ashton-Warner, Sylvia (Personal Name)

Her Spinster, 1959, c1958.

NZ files, Aug. 28, 2001 (hdg.: Ashton-Warner, Sylvia, 1908-1984)

Info. converted from 678, 2012-09-24 (b. 1908)

Dictionary of New Zealand biography, via WWW, May 8, 2019 (Ashton-Warner, Sylvia Constance; 1908-1984; educationalist, teacher, writer; Sylvia Constance Ashton Warner (whose pen-name was Sylvia Ashton-Warner) was born in Stratford, Taranaki, on 17 December 1908; died at home in Tauranga on 28 April 1984; her educational theory was expressed in the form of novels (Spinster, Bell call) or as autobiography (Teacher, Spearpoint: 'teacher' in America). Her other novels, such as Greenstone, Incense to idols and Three, remain largely unknown to an educationalist audience)